Transsiberian

The Trans-Siberian Railroad is a supreme record-holder in the Guinness Book of Records. It’s the longest continuous rail line in the world, has the greatest number of stations, and was also built in a record time. The line runs through eight different time-zones, stops in 87 different towns, and joins two continents. People buy their Trans-Siberian train tickets to see the entirety of Russia in seven days, from Moscow to Vladivostok, from one end of the country to the other. One could say that the Trans-Sib, as it is familiarly referred to, is a representation of Russia itself – 34 years of struggles with permafrost, taiga forest and labyrinthine mountains, a railway that links the Golden Ring, the Ural Mountains, Siberia and Lake Baikal, crossing 9000 kilometres from the country’s capital to the Pacific Ocean.